Globe Trotter: Yahoo Inc still revving up Flickr

Warner Bros. unveiled a web show from Charlie's Angels director McG that seeks to create a new genre the studio calls a "social series" by taking pictures, music and information from a viewer's Facebook page and putting it in the video.

The series, Aim High, marks one more way in which Hollywood's studios are trying to engage younger audiences on social media websites that have become competition for films, TV shows and other forms of entertainment reports Reuters Canada.

Aim High, which will debut on October 18 and run for six episodes, stars Jackson Rathbone of Twilight fame as a high school student turned government operative named Nick Green who goes on weekly, top-secret adventures. Aim High, which will play at www.facebook.com/aimhighseries uses computer programs to access a user's profile from which to draw material.

Photo Op

Things may not be picture perfect at Yahoo! right now, but that's not stopping the beleaguered Internet company from touching up its popular photo-sharing service, Flickr. Flickr's newest sharing tool, called 'Photo Session,' is designed to replicate the experience of leafing through an old-fashioned photo album. Yahoo! made that clear on Wednesday with the introduction of a new way for friends in different locations to simultaneously browse through pictures.

The company also unveiled its first official application for the millions of devices running on Google's Android software reports Associated Press. It's part of a broader effort by Yahoo to recapture some of the ground that it has lost in recent years to Facebook, which has emerged as an advertising and photo-sharing hub. Yahoo touted its free Android app as a sign of its determination to become a bigger force on mobile phones and tablets. Yahoo's product managers are making the push at a time of internal turmoil.